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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AK2004 who wrote (495540)	11/19/2003 2:44:37 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

1) delivery means were found Be specific. What exactly was found? 2) no one argues the fact that old stockpile of nerve gases existed But none were found. 3) Saddam refused to provide not only detailed documentation of how nerve gasses were destroyed but also the location where those chemicals were destroyed. It seems no one remembered where they were destroyed. The burden of proof was on Saddam and hence Saddam violated peace treaty. Saddam said that he had no chemicals. We didn't find any either. When asked, he said they were destroyed. He might not have had any evidence. What kind of evidence would there be if the were incinerated, or neutralized with other chemicals and disposed of? 4) UN did not have guts to take appropriate actions - the story is way to similar to League of Nations not taking actions against Hitler Neocon red herring. UN had weapons inspectors back in the country. Bush made them leave so that he could invade. 5) Bush did what needed to be done The jury is still out on that one. From my viewpoint he did more than was justified by the evidence. Pre-emptive war is the Bush doctrine. It is not the doctrine of the people of the United States, and it never has been before. Orca

To: AK2004 who wrote (495540)	11/19/2003 3:00:56 PM
From: Joel Karlinsky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Wrong. There was no reason to invade Iraq, period. Inspectors were on the ground and doing their job. What, we invaded Iraq because Saddam didn't provide paperwork that was to our likeing! What a joke. Sure Saddam could mobilize weapons in 45 minutes; he had camel backs for launchers. The guy didn't even have an Air Force. We had taken care of his Air Force beforehand. We blew the crap out of the country, knowing that Saddam didn't have any real forces to fight back. Very easy pickings. What about all those pre-war pictures depicting his weapons factories and launch sites? Haven't seen any of those lately, have you. Oh sure, he destroyed them. Maybe he did, but if he did it was before the war. Thus, either way, no WMD indicates Saddam was basically in compliance, and there was no need to invade. Nah, we could have kept inspectors in Iraq for the next 50 years and avoided all this bloodshed. On the other hand, North Korea is not in compliance. Why don't we go over there and blow the hell out of that country? I'll tell you why. No oil. And they're not easy pickings. No sir, there would be a lot of U.S. casualites if we invaded North Korea. That would be political suicide.